Making The Same Mistakes Again And Again
BLOG VIEW: I arrived home from work the other day, opened my mailbox and found a bright yellow envelope waiting for me. The...
Don’t Call It A Comeback
BLOG VIEW: Amidst the tweets about deficit cuts, smart grid innovation and the federal space program, the White House's Twitter Town Hall last...
Captain America Vs. Elizabeth Warren
BLOG VIEW: Next week is the premiere of two highly anticipated endeavors: the Hollywood blockbuster 'Captain America: The First Avenger' and the Consumer...
Between Barack And A Hard Place
BLOG VIEW: The 2012 presidential election campaign is speeding up, but in the rush to the White House, it appears that a significant...
HUD’s Dismal Father’s Day Present
BLOG VIEW: I was always under the impression that the departmental acronym 'HUD' stood for 'Housing and Urban Development.' But no one at...
The Curious Timing Of HAMP Enforcement
BLOG VIEW: Why now? That's the question that confronts the U.S. Treasury Department following its announcement last week that it is halting HAMP...
Making Sense Of The New IPO Parade
BLOG VIEW: You may remember the opening line of Charles Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities': It was the best of times, it...
Paul Is Dead, Housing Is Recovering And Other Inane Hoaxes
BLOG VIEW: Last year, I wrote a review for the online cinema site Film Threat on a strange little movie called 'Paul McCartney...
Mr. Potato Head And Me
BLOG VIEW: I attended the recent Mortgage Bankers Association Secondary Market Conference, and I returned from that event with a score of new...
Moving To A ‘.mobi’ Beat
BLOG VIEW: The other week, I saw a newspaper advertisement for Dime Bank of Norwich, Conn., that caught my attention. What stood out...
David H. Stevens Meets A New York Gorilla
BLOG VIEW: It was ironic that the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) held its National Secondary Market Conference at New York's Marriott Marquis Hotel....
This Looks Like A Job For Leonard Nimoy
BLOG VIEW: Back when I was a kid in the 1970s, one of my favorite television programs was 'In Search Of�' This weekly...
Teach Me, Elmo
BLOG VIEW: You know there is something wrong with society when the Muppets are stepping in to fill a void that families, the...
Are You Really Interested In My Opinion?
BLOG VIEW: When I was in fourth grade, my elementary school principal called an assembly to announce a new initiative: The student body...
A New Milestone In FHFA Incompetence
BLOG VIEW: At what point did the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) make the transition from being merely inefficient to being blatantly incompetent?...
Dark Days For Reverse Mortgages
BLOG VIEW: There is no nice way around it - last month was disastrous for the reverse mortgage sector, thanks to tumultuous upheaval...
Too Much Help Wanted
BLOG VIEW: Kevin Warsh is leaving the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System this week, after a little more than five...
Whatever Happened To CRA Reform?
BLOG VIEW: Say whatever you may about Barney Frank, but there is one accusation that will never stick to him: He is not...
What Can The Mortgage Banking Industry Learn From Charlie Sheen?
BLOG VIEW: The great novelist Arthur Koestler once wrote, 'If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of...
Maxine Waters’ Theater Of The Absurd
BLOG VIEW: In August 2010, the House Ethics Committee released an 80-page investigative report that found 'substantial reason' to believe Rep. Maxine Waters,...